by Melanie | Apr 19, 2017 | Blog |
Lordy, lordy, I’ve been off kilter for days. You see, last week, and for no good reason, I decided to move our furniture. You are maybe thinking that it isn’t really a big deal, but you would be wrong. Nineteen years ago we moved into our house. I looked around....
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by Melanie | Mar 23, 2017 | Blog |
Our second child is graduating this year. Not only that, but all of our kids are now teenagers. Occasionally a random child will catch me standing in the doorway of their room, a distant look in my eyes, and ask me what I’m doing. “Oh, nothing.” I...
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by Melanie | Mar 14, 2017 | Blog |
Last week I posted a video to my Facebook page, as you do. The video, which everyone has probably seen by now, was of Jason Chaffetz asserting that folks needed to stop buying themselves new iPhones and invest in their own healthcare. To make “hard...
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by Melanie | Mar 1, 2017 | Blog |
Congress has been in recess, and for the past several days, my Facebook feed has been swamped with articles about Republicans’ complete bafflement as to their raucous town hall meetings. Honestly, do none of them have children? Specifically teenagers? I have...
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by Melanie | Feb 12, 2017 | Blog |
Oy. How are you feeling? I’m finding out that all this barely suppressed, politically-induced rage is hell on the immune system. I think I’ve been some sort of sick all but maybe three days since the inauguration. Last week started with a cough and by the...
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by Melanie | Jan 29, 2017 | Blog |
I few months back I remember someone telling me about how our ancestors, when migrating across the most desolate northern climes, would carry a small, lit ember in a pack. Imagine! Imagine the miracle of being able to keep such a precious thing alive. Imagine the...
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